Quotes About Physics

The many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics suggests there are an infinite number of divergent parallel universes. Every moment of your life you enter a new universe. With every decision you make.

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actual philosophy.

Physics as we know it will be over in six months.

RADIOACTIVITY IS A SPECIAL KIND OF ENERGY THAT COMES FROM INSIDE THE ATOMS IN CERTAIN METALS OR CHEMICALS. WHEN SOMETHING IS RADIOACTIVE, IT GIVES OFF ENERGY RAYS UNTIL THE ENERGY IS ALL GONE.

My best inorganic friend is science!

The Universe is a big ship and its captain is the Laws of Physics! The bad news is that there seems to be no safe harbour to dock and no lifeboats if we sink!

But twentieth-century science was also marked by the demise of the reductionist dream. In spite of its great successes explaining the very large and very small, fundamental physics, and more generally, scientific reductionism, have been notably mute in explaining the complex phenomena closest to our human-scale concerns.

At every major step, physics has required, and frequently stimulated, the introduction of new mathematical tools and concepts. Our present understanding of the laws of physics, with their extreme precision and universality, is only possible in mathematical terms.

The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.

There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe—or that they were applicable to every time in its history.

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

Physics, yes? Physics. This is physics. It's also politics. The two are sometimes painfully difficult to keep apart. Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen".

At rest, we burn about one calorie a minute, which is comparable to the heat produced by a seventy-five-watt light bulb.

reflection?' 'He would not see his reflection presumably, since the light could never reach the mirror from his face if the mirror is receding from it at the same speed.

It was called Buys Ballot's law. In the Northern Hemisphere, if you stand with your back to the prevailing wind, the area of low pressure will be on your left and the area of high pressure on your right, because wind travels counterclockwise inward toward a center of low pressure. The directions are reversed in the Southern Hemisphere

As the medieval historian Richard Kieckhefer notes, the people of medieval Europe thought of magic as rational for two reasons: "first of all, that it could actually work (that its efficacy was shown by evidence recognized within the culture as authentic) and, secondly, that its workings were governed by principles (of theology or of physics) that could be coherently articulated.

I forget if it was the Mathematician of Alexandria who said that geometry is beauty laid bare or the Father of Relativity who made the claim for physics," Darger said. "She is, in either case, ravishing.

Alas, but you do not recognize one thing, Monsieur le Docteur, one thing that you will find very difficult to comprehend. The twelfth century was quite different from today, different in a most special way. You see, the entire world believed in magic, and this affected things. It altered the world we perceived, everyone perceived, mortal and vampire alike. You will not be able to accept this, but it altered the very laws of physics. Magic was a little more real.

For example, Bohm believes an electron is not one thing but a totality or ensemble enfolded throughout the whole of space. When an instrument detects the presence of a single electron it is simply because one aspect of the electron's ensemble has unfolded, similar to the way an ink drop unfolds out of the glycerine, at that particular location. When an electron appears to be moving it is due to a continuous series of such unfoldments and enfoldments.

Fizikçilerin atomlardan olu?an ?eylerin iç derinliklerinde bulduklar? o yeni ve garip dünya, Cartes ve Marco Polo'nun ayak basm?? oldu?u yerlerden çok daha büyüleyiciydi. Bu denli heyecan uyand?rmas?n?n nedeni bu yeni dünyayla ilgili her ?eyin geçerli mant?k ve sa?duyuya ters dü?mesiydi.

Yes, photons impart momentum despite having less mass than a lapsed Catholic.)

La práctica de la astronomía y la voluntad científica vacían el cielo cristiano como una bañera llena de agua residual. La física es una antimetafísica; permite una ontología material

Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.

the laws of physics, carefully constructed after thousands of years of experimentation, are nothing but the laws of harmony one can write down for strings and membranes. The laws of chemistry are the melodies that one can play on these strings. the universe is a symphony of strings. And the "Mind of God," which Einstein wrote eloquently about, is cosmic music resonating throughout hyperspace.